TED 2008 – and thoughts on how TED became a worldwide media platform
This past week I attended TED 2008 in Monterey (last time in this location as TED moves to Long Beach) and – as usual – brought back tons of ideas and inspiration (good coverage here). TED is definitely one of the best conferences one can attend, full of energy, interesting people and new discoveries. This […]
Suite101 goes international, launches German site
International expansion is part of almost every business plan of an ambitious start-up but few ever get around to it: strong existing competition in international markets, a lack of understanding of the local culture or not enough international expertise in the management team often keep start-ups in their domestic market. At AbeBooks, we learned very […]
Nexopia: a new investment and a new (additional) job
Today we announced our investment in Nexopia.com, Canada’s largest social networking site for youth. At the same time we also announced that I will be joining the company as CEO. A new (and very exciting) investment for Burda Digital Ventures / W Media Ventures and at the same time an additional job for me! Nexopia […]
Impressions from DLD
Just came back from 3 incredible days at DLD. The conference (hosted by our friends from Burda) is getting better each year and has definitely become the premier European conference for digital media. The first day was a bit slow but day 2 and 3 had a range of highlights: a social networking panel with […]
Vancouver gets an incubator
Boris Mann and Danny Robinson (both Digital Media people to watch in 2008) have partnered to start an incubator in Vancouver (see Techvibes coverage here). I think that this is incredible news for our city – as I said before, Vancouver has already a lot of engineering and entrepreunerial talent as well as VC money […]